Director: Thomas Napper
Before champagne with her name on the label became a global icon, Barbe-Nicole Clicquot had to fight to keep her late husband's business alive — that fight is the subject of Widow Clicquot, director Thomas Napper's 2024 drama.
What is Widow Clicquot about?
Set in the vineyards of early 19th-century France, the film traces how a young widow took over a struggling wine house after her husband's death and, against the assumptions of the men around her, built it into a business that would outlast her. Rather than simply retreating into mourning, she learns the trade from the ground up, makes decisions no one expected a woman in her position to make, and gambles on ideas that others in the industry dismissed. The film moves between her early marriage and the years she spends steering the company through war, financial pressure and skepticism, showing how personal loss and business survival become tangled together. Haley Bennett leads as the widow, with Tom Sturridge, Sam Riley, Leo Suter, Ben Miles, Anson Boon, Natasha O'Keeffe and Chris Larkin filling out the people around her.
Cast & crew
Haley Bennett carries the film in the title role, portraying the widow across both the tender early scenes of her marriage and the harder years of running the business alone. Tom Sturridge appears as her husband, while Sam Riley, Leo Suter, Ben Miles, Anson Boon, Natasha O'Keeffe and Chris Larkin play the family members, rivals and associates who shape her path forward.
Context & significance
Widow Clicquot is a 2024 American production directed by Thomas Napper and runs 90 minutes. Based on the real history behind the Veuve Clicquot champagne house, the drama sits alongside other period films built around a single determined figure reshaping a family enterprise against the odds of her era.
Where & how to watch
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